A Viable Literature for College Teaching and Learning
I am just finishing up a book on pedagogical scholarship, more specifically a review of previously published work on teaching and learning authored by faculty in disciplines other than education…
The Teaching-Learning Trinity
By Steve J. Thien, Kansas State University sjthien@ksu.edu I have found it significant to visualize teaching and learning not as a duality but as a trinity, a grouping of three…
Look to Midcareer Faculty for Learning Communities
Studies on faculty careers show that faculty research publication productivity plateaus or drops at midcareer. However, this one measure of faculty productivity should not be mistaken as stagnation, says Shari…
Creating Trust in Online Education
In order to have a productive learning environment, the instructor needs to develop and maintain a sense of trust between and among the students and the instructor through good course…
Teaching to the Learning Styles Across Generations
Instructors need to take steps to make the online classroom a comfortable and supportive learning environment regardless of students' online learning experience or learning style preferences-a particularly important consideration when…
Project-Based Learning: A Natural Fit with Online Education
The Buck Institute for Education's definition of project-based learning-"a systematic teaching method that engages students in learning knowledge and skills acquired through an extended inquiry process structured around complex, authentic…
Online Education: Questions Every Faculty Member Should Ask
If we had been asked if we were prepared to teach online before teaching our first online courses, the answer would have been a naïve "Yes." We had attended several…
Aligning Students’ Expectations With Realities of Online Education
Students' perceptions of what an online course will be like are often quite different from how it really is. That is why Jim McKeown, assistant professor of computer science at…
Translating On-Ground Courses into Effective Online Education
Creating a Web-based course from a current, successful on-ground course is difficult and, at best, can be considered a translation process. In the past, instructors have created Web-based courses by…
Learning Styles are Important to Teaching Critical Thinking Online
Online courses offer several advantages over face-to-face courses when it comes to teaching critical thinking (analysis, evaluation, and deduction), according to according to Linda Armstrong, science professor at Sullivan County…